Broadway Melody (The)
- Director: Harry Beaumont
- Writer: Edmund Goulding; Norman Houston
- Producer: Harry Rapf; Irving Thalberg
CGiii Comment
Littered with camp men and terrible songs.
Thank God...film-making has moved on.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. Eddie was in love with Harriet, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in love to her, but she is courted by Jock Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jock nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Harriet recognizes, that Eddie is in love with Queenie.
Cast & Characters
Charles King as Eddie Kearns;
Anita Page as Queenie Mahoney;
Bessie Love as Hank Mahoney;
Jed Prouty as Uncle Jed;
Kenneth Thomson as Jock Warriner;
Edward Dillon as Stage Manager;
Mary Doran as Flo;
Eddie Kane as Francis Zanfield;
J. Emmett Beck as Babe Hatrick;
Marshall Ruth as Stew, Mr. Zanfield's assistant;
Drew Demorest as Turpe, Costumer;
Nacio Herb Brown as Pianist;
James Burrows as Singer;
Ray Cooke as Bellhop;
Arthur Freed as Bystander in Rehearsal Room